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A ssociate Chief of Staff for Education Martin Eason and his Administrative Officer Birgit Goldfarb from the Mountain Home VA Medical Center, also known as the James H. Quillen Veterans Administration (VA) Medical Center in Tennessee, visited the VCOM– Virginia campus on July 27, 2015. Dean Jan Willcox, DO; Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs Jim Powers, DO; Assistant Vice President for Graduate Medical Education Ward Stevens, MS; and Family Medicine Residency VCOM Coordinates with VA Center for Rotation and Residency Options

Program Director and Class of 2007 alumna Ronna New, DO, welcomed the visitors. The meeting explored options for collaboration between the College, the Osteopathic Medical Network of Excellence in Education, and the VA Medical Center for third and fourth year student rotations and residency opportunities. The visitors also enjoyed a tour of the campus. ◄

VCOM Brings a Plastination Lab Exhibit to Roanoke

V COM maintains a permanent display using plastinated organs at the Science Museum of Western Virginia in Roanoke as part of the “Healthy Body” program. The plastination laboratory debuted as an exhibit at the inaugural Virginia Science Festival in 2014. VCOM is proud to partner with the museum in this educational effort. exposition “Our Heart and Lungs” at the Virginia Science Festival. The Festival is a month-long event occurring in multiple locations throughout the state of Virginia. VCOM was honored to participate in the regional event, held at the Science Museum of Western Virginia in Roanoke. Faculty, staff, and students from the VCOM–Virginia campus plastination lab explained the process of plastination and how it is used to further medical and community understanding of human anatomy. Several thousand people attended the one- day anatomy exhibit. Class of 2018 students Natalie Peck and Terry Hoffman, Class of 2019 students Kate Slaymaker, Jackie Boggs, Kim Garnett, and Richard Wyeth, PhD, associate professor of anatomy and physiology, acted as docents for the exhibit. ◄ On September 26, 2015, VCOM presented a plastination laboratory exhibit as part of the permanent

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Vol. 8 No. 1 | Fall 2015